The first step
Apply for a scoping assessment
Every ALC engagement begins the same way. Before any audit is proposed, ALC conducts a scoping assessment to establish whether an audit is genuinely indicated for your institution. The assessment is free, conducted in person, and concludes with a written recommendation either way.
ALC does not audit every institution that applies. Where scoping shows an audit is not indicated, the recommendation says so plainly, and that is the end of the process unless you choose otherwise.
What happens after you apply
Three steps, all in writing.
Review
Your application is reviewed against ALC’s suitability criteria. You receive a response within five working days.
Scoping
Where suitability is indicated, ALC arranges the scoping assessment at your institution, in person, at no cost. It is a structured conversation across a small number of roles, contained to a single visit.
Recommendation
You receive a one-page Scope Recommendation Note carrying ALC’s honest verdict: audit indicated, or not indicated. The note is yours either way, and it is written to be useful either way.
The application
Eight fields. A few minutes.
The assessment examines whether the conditions that make an audit valuable are present: whether your student-athlete cohort is material to your outcomes, whether your current visibility of the environment is sufficient, and whether the institution is positioned to make use of what an audit would find. It is an assessment of fit, never a sales conversation.
One process. One honest answer.
The scoping assessment exists so that no institution ever commissions an audit it does not need, and no institution that needs one is left guessing. Whatever the verdict, you will know more about your dual career environment than you did before applying.